Crisis Response

UNDP Crisis Bureau -

Deployment mechanism

as of Dec 5, 2018 (click to enlarge)

To prepare for, respond to, and support recovery from major crises, UNDP Country Offices (COs) have often to meet multiple demands and pressures in addition to their usual workload. Under these circumstances, COs often have a critical need for additional capacity to help them meet these demands and facilitate essential roles in these areas.

UNDP has several deployable capacities that can be drawn upon, including SURGE Advisors, and external experts from the ExpRes roster and Stand-by Partners.

UNDP periodically commissions reviews of its deployments mechanism to ensure systems remain up to date and new technology and ideas are brought on board.

SURGE Advisors are deployed as First Responders (FR) in the immediate aftermathof a crisis, as part of a SURGE planning team or as SURGE support during the 3-6 month recovery period. SURGE advisorsare UNDP staff members selected for their extensive experience in their technical field and in crisis situations. They also have strong analytical, interpersonal, team work, communication, and stress management skills, with a proven ability to deliver timely and quality results under pressure. Once requested to participate in a FR or SURGE mission, advisors must be ready to deploy within days. These missions are typically between 2 weeks and 3 months.

Stand-by Partnership Programme: UNDP has agreements with 7 partners to deploy additional capacity on a pro bono basis. Under these arrangements, partners maintain a pool of technical experts that can be deployed to UNDP to enhance its crisis response capacity. While standby arrangements primarily support the response to a crisis, these partnerships can also strengthen the capacity of partner countries for crisis preparedness and risk reduction. UNDP currently has Memorandum of Understandings with the following Stand-by Partner organizations: Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Danish Refugee Council (DRC), Canada's Civilian Reserve (CANADEM), Department for International Development (DfID), RedR Australia, and iMMAP.

The Experts Roster for Rapid Response (ExpRes): The ExpRes roster is a consultant deployment mechanism which maintains pre-vetted consultants for quick support to UNDP Country Offices. The primary purpose of this roster is to deploy Crisis Prevention and Recovery technical experts for crisis preparedness, response, recovery, and other enabling functions in a time efficient manner. The ExpRes roster currently consists of 2,404 vetted consultants across 22 profiles:

Communications

Early recovery coordination

Monitoring and evaluation advisor for CPR context

Conflict prevention & peacebuilding

Early warning

Operations Support Programme support

Gender Specialist

Extractive industries

Recovery and peacebuilding assessment

Governance

HD Nexus advisor

Resource mobilization

Prevention of Violent Extremism

Health Crises

Rule of Law

Disarmament demobilization & reintegration

Livelihoods and area based development

Senior Advisor, CPR issues

Disaster risk reduction and recovery

Migration and displacement

UNDAF

If you would like to apply to be on the UNDP – Crisis Bureau ExpRes consultant roster, kindly submit your application via the following form.

Community volunteers for UNDP's Sierra Leone's Ebola response in 2015.

Debris management and cash for work intiatives after the Nepal 2015 earthquake.